We would like to thank Ms. Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, President of the Coordination Centre of the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija, for her statement. We also welcome the presence among us this morning of the Prime Minister of Kosovo.
We congratulate the new Special Representative of the Secret…
We congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and thank you for convening this meeting on Darfur. Once again, we express our gratitude to the delegation of Ghana for its presidency last month.
We are delighted to have the Secretary-General amo…
Let me congratulate you belatedly, on the last day of your presidency, Sir, on your outstanding stewardship of the Security Council during the month of August, a month beset by many difficult and challenging issues on the Council’s agenda.
The United Republic of Tanzania welcomes and supports resol…
We join in thanking the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Gambari, for his briefing on the situation in Palestine. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his report on the implementation of resolution 1701 (2006) (S/2006/670).
We welcome the fact that Lebanon has moved troops across the Litan…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for his briefing. We also wish to congratulate His Excellency Mr. José Luis Guterres on his new appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste, and we welcome him to the Council.
The United Republic of Tanzania witnesse…
We join in welcoming the foreign ministers who are here today.
We would like to thank the United States and France for their tireless efforts, which made it possible for the Security Council to vote on today’s important resolution.
In a Government statement issued on 31 July, Tanzania called for a…
We wish to join the other delegations that spoke before us, Mr. President, in welcoming your presence and that of the other ministers in the Council today. We also thank your delegation for having organized this meeting and for having prepared a draft presidential statement, which we heartily suppor…
The United Republic of Tanzania voted in favour of the resolution we have just adopted. We voted thus while regretting the failure of diplomatic efforts intended to engage the Islamic Republic of Iran and to achieve a suitable outcome that would have protected the right of Iran to pursue peaceful nu…
We are grateful for the insightful presentation made by Ms. Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children Armed Conflict; Ms. Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF; and the representatives of the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank. We are also gratef…
The United Republic of Tanzania associates itself with the statement made by Ambassador Youcef Yousfi of Algeria on behalf of the African Group.
The General Assembly, and the Organization as a whole, have recorded important achievements since the adoption of the World Summit Outcome document last S…
We thank Mr. Guéhenno and Mr. Gambari for their update briefings on the crisis between Israel and Lebanon. We, like other delegations, are alarmed by the sudden and escalating fighting across the Blue Line involving Hizbollah and the Israel Defense Forces, which is spreading to other parts of Lebano…
Mr. President, I join in expressing the sentiments already voiced regarding your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Denmark. We also join in expressing our gratitude to you for having led the Security Council mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and for your remarks this morning…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Angela Kane for her update on the situation in the Middle East.
Like other delegations, we are deeply troubled by the recent developments in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. The upsurge of violence in the past three days, sparked by the abduction o…
My delegation wishes to thank Mr. Jan Egeland for his comprehensive briefing.
This meeting provides another forum for us to assess the progress made by the United Nations and its organs in instilling within the international community a culture of protecting civilians in armed conflict.
My delegat…
We thank you, Madam President, for organizing this debate to revisit the important issue of the rule of law. We also acknowledge the presence of your Minister for Foreign Affairs; this is the second time he has been with us, which demonstrates Denmark’s principled position on the United Nations, and…
My delegation acknowledges the presence of the Prime Minister of Kosovo in the Council Chamber this morning. My delegation is also grateful to Mr. Søren Jessen-Petersen, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his informative briefing. We pay tribute to him and to the United Nations Int…
On behalf of my African colleagues in the Council and all the members who participated in the recent Council mission to Africa, I would like to thank our team
leaders, Ambassador Jones Parry and Ambassador De La Sablière, for their intrepid leadership during the mission. They were firm in conveying…
Our statement will be circulated, so I should just like to make five points.
The first is to express deep regret at the recent negative developments in Timor-Leste.
The second is to commend the quick action taken by the Secretary-General not only in consulting leaders in the region and maintaining…
We join in welcoming Judge Pocar and Judge Møse, as well as Prosecutors Carla del Ponte and Hassan Jallow, and thank them for their presentations.
We are pleased to note that there is progress being made by the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal T…
Five years ago, during the special session on HIV/AIDS, we committed ourselves to take action against HIV and AIDS. As stated in the Secretary- General’s report (A/60/736), the global AIDS response is now at a crossroads. This meeting has thus come at an opportune time for us not only to review the …
